v2.6.14

Zoom bots could sit in the waiting room for hours, and bots that were never admitted often reported a misleading reason. Every bot now reaches a final status, and the reason names what actually happened. Waiting-room status and billing also start when the bot asks to be admitted, not when it opens the meeting page.

💥Breaking Changes

• A Zoom meeting whose host never started it now ends with WAITING_FOR_HOST_TIMEOUT, not TIMEOUT_WAITING_TO_START. Who is affected: integrations that branch on a bot's end reason. What to do: handle the new value; it is not billed, where TIMEOUT_WAITING_TO_START is. Failures that used to arrive as ZOOM_LOADING_STALLED are now split between this, TIMEOUT_WAITING_TO_START (the host did not admit the bot) and ZOOM_ANONYMOUS_JOIN_NOT_ALLOWED (Zoom blocked the bot). See Error codes.
• in_waiting_room is sent when the bot asks to be admitted, not when it opens the meeting page. Who is affected: anyone measuring lobby time from this status, or expecting it on every bot. What to do: a bot that fails before asking to join no longer sends in_waiting_room at all. Waiting-room charges for TIMEOUT_WAITING_TO_START and BOT_NOT_ACCEPTED now start from that first status, and a bot that never asked to join is billed zero waiting-room time rather than from its creation.
• joined_at is absent for a bot that was never admitted. Who is affected: integrations reading joined_at as a proxy for "the bot ran". What to do: treat a missing joined_at as never admitted, and use the bot's status for its lifecycle.

✨New Features

• Bots now emit the bot.chat_status webhook introduced in v2.6.13, so the event starts arriving for real meetings.

⚡Improvements

• An anti-bot block seen on an earlier attempt stays the reported reason, instead of being replaced by a vaguer failure from the last retry.
• Every bot reports a final status, including after a shutdown race or a failure on the last retry. A bot stopped at its maximum session length reports RECORDING_TIMEOUT rather than rejoining the meeting hours later.
• POST /v2/bots/{bot_id}/leave now works while a bot is still joining, not only once it is in the meeting.
• Teams bots admitted just before the waiting-room deadline no longer fail during their final setup, and the Join control is found in meetings that render it inside an embedded frame.

🐛Bug Fixes

• Zoom bots no longer stay stuck showing "in waiting room" for hours.
• Zoom bots admitted after a long wait in the lobby now record, instead of giving up at the moment they get in.
• Zoom bots no longer leave a live meeting early when the meeting page blocks one of the bot's scripts.

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